Team Alpha Male

About a year ago, ‘KO’ Kaleio Romero earned his nickname like stripes on a Jiu-Jitsu belt, and the undefeated prospect stamped his poetic alter ego on Epic Fighting’s canvas with the head of Christian Stolp at Epic Fighting 35. At Nor Cal Fight Series (NCFS) 3, ‘KO’ was birthed with a right hand that left […]

About a year ago, ‘KO’ Kaleio Romero earned his nickname like stripes on a Jiu-Jitsu belt, and the undefeated prospect stamped his poetic alter ego on Epic Fighting’s canvas with the head of Christian Stolp at Epic Fighting 35. At Nor Cal Fight Series (NCFS) 3, ‘KO’ was birthed with a right hand that left […]

On August 5, 2017, Hector ‘Kid Alex’ Sandoval (14-3) will cross the southern border of ‘The Golden State’ and erode the wall between his current lot on the UFC’s flyweight roster and the promotion’s top fifteen. Since entering professional prizefighting in 2008, Sandoval’s head has never left the clouds about wrapping UFC gold around his […]

“However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.” —Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory— Benito ‘The Golden Boy’ Lopez (7-0) recently received MMA’s ‘Golden Ticket:’ a chance to compete in the hottest mid-week MMA show on the market against Steven ‘Ocho’ Peterson (15-5). The only thing guaranteed to contestants […]

On July 30, 2017, EBI (Eddie Bravo Invitational) 12 will slap the combat sports community with an all-female cast of submission-only Jiu-Jitsu specialists. Throughout the broadcast, on UFC Fight Pass, sixteen women will work their way through a gauntlet of world-class, no-Gi talent, and four will clash in a tournament of Combat Jiu-Jitsu, a form […]

The UFC’s President, Dana White, has been on a hunt for fighters to fill his roster, and, according to White, the promotion’s flyweight division is light on contenders. When the UFC resurrects the Octagon atop Mexico City, Mexico’s mountain for UFC Fight Night 114, Joseph ‘Bopo’ Morales (8-0) plans to showcase: he’s the silver-lining in […]

Follow my NorCal MMA project at:

Quotes

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."
-Jim Rohn-

"Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
-Buddha-

"If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
-Jacques-Yves Cousteau-

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
-Thomas A. Edison-

"Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want."
-Brian Tracy-

"The "mere-measurement effect" refers to the finding that when people are asked what they intend to do, they become more likely to act in accordance with their answers."
-Thaler and Sunstein-

"Naming our fears isn't about confessing guilt. When we linger a bit longer in the details of our uncertainty and doubt, we can see the opportunities that lie hidden beneath."
-Lucy Calkins-

"I've always disliked rereading my writing. It feels good to write; why mar that feeling with a rereading?"
-Don Graves-

"The gi is a mystery; it chokes and pulls and twists around your body. It controls you: By controlling the gi, you control the man inside it."
-Sam Sheridan-

"Something about stick-to-itiveness and persistence in the face of overwhelming odds was the lesson that he wanted to impart. Tenacity."
-Art Davie-

"It often surprises kids to learn that writers, almost all writers, research something before they finish writing a piece."
-Colleen Cruz-

"I've observed the sport's grassroots movement firsthand, and I know MMA is not only going to survive; it's going to flourish, expand, and become one of the biggest sport in the world."
-"Big" John McCarthy-

"By sharing our solitude we come both to respect it and to create a door that allows us to leave and return to the essential lonliness from which so much writing comes."
-Donald Murray-

"I believe it is through the arts that we escape. The artist selects for us what is significant, what we must pay attention to, what will order our world."
-Donald Murray-

"The thing that kills me about education is that it's so touchy-feely."
-Michelle Rhee-

"There is an important "I" quality to work. It is who I am. In our society, we constantly ask people who they are, identifying-and classifying-them by their jobs."
-Donald Murray-

"Without data, you are just another person with an opinion."
-Amanda Ripley-

"You've got to continue to grow or you're just like last night's cornbread-stale and dry."
-Loretta Lynn-

"If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking him if there's anything you can do. Think of something appropriate, and do it."
-E.W. House-

"There are roughly twelve and a half hours of "last few minutes" during each of perhaps six classes in each school year."
-Doug Lemov-

"Tennessee Williams says you write about what bugs you. I think you do. You write about all the concerns of the moment, or the concerns just before the moment."
-Robert Anderson-

"Children need models rather than critics."
-Joseph Joubert-

"Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path."
-Bill Gates-

"I do not ask the wounded person how he feels-I myself become the wounded person."
-Walt Whitman-

"Many of us love our work more than we admit. We are defined by our work the older we get."
-Donald Murray-

"The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
-Thomas Huxley-

"Under the surface of contradiction lies similarity."
-Asif Jordan-

"Passion without a plan is incomplete."
-Urijah Faber-

"I am always bored in meetings, at cocktail parties, receptions, social events; often bored at dinner parties with more than six people; sometimes bored when I am with friends, even a friend; but never when I am along."
-Donald Murray-

"If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking him if there's anything you can do. Think of something appropriate, and do it."
-E.W. Howe-

"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes."
-Parkes Robinson-

"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write."
-Stephen King-